Does chromecast support streaming video from any webpage? Or only few like youtube? Andd it streams only from chrome browser? Is it plug and play or confuguration to be done?

Ananmay S

July 30, 2013 at 9:47 pm

Yes there will be Chrome extension for you to do that.
However,you may experience a loss of quality or likewise.
But I think many services will and should have direct access like Netflix or Youtube!

Drsunil V

August 9, 2013 at 5:25 am

Thanks

Appending a subquestion : Would the buffering time for videos from offiically supported video streaming pages and from tab-cast would be different?

Susendeep D

August 10, 2013 at 6:05 am

Buffering time depends upon your quality of internet connectivity.If it has high speed and no latency,you can experience a smooth streaming.

Drsunil V

August 17, 2013 at 9:30 am

Thanks

I understand

Oron J

July 30, 2013 at 12:59 pm

At present, it can stream Netflix and Youtube can be streamed directly to the TV, whereas the Chrome extension (which will work with other websites as well as with locally stored videos) uses the computer as a middleman, to encode and steam the video to the device. From reviews I've read, it appears that the performance of this "middleman" approach is not great. That said, I imagine that support for the device, both for direct steaming and from the computer will grow very quickly, and things will look better even within the next few months.

Drsunil V

August 9, 2013 at 5:24 am

Thanks

You mean video from Youtube and that from any other webpage would not be same quality?

Susendeep D

August 10, 2013 at 6:00 am

Actually,encoding requires a considerably strong hardware which is nearly the spec that surface pro tablet is having.

Oron Joffe

August 10, 2013 at 12:21 pm

@DrSunnil, in essence, yes.
Video from YouTube and Netflix will be downloaded as fast as your broadband connection allows, and will not lose quality in the process (assuming the Chromecast device can cope with it).
Other material has to be downloaded to the computer (using bandwidth), re-encoded (using a lot of computer resources, which may cause "stuttering", depending on the hardware). Re-encoding will also lose some quality, regardless of the hardware. The stream will then be retransmitted over the same WiFi network which may be congested (there's the stuff coming down from the internet, remember?). So in a nutshell, it's doing the best of bad job, and it may or may not be of acceptable quality, but it is unlikely to be as good as the Youtube & Netflix streams.

Drsunil V

August 17, 2013 at 9:30 am

Thanks for elaborate reply

Please tell that , To find gadgets having same function what keywords have to be put in ebay search engine?
Optionally you may enlist similar gadgets on http://www.ebay.in

Can you pl weblink official blog which would inform availability of chromecast in countries outside US?

Susendeep D

August 10, 2013 at 5:56 am

Chromecast is currently available in US only.It would become available after October as I think, since in many of the stores it's out of stock.Ordering in Play store,it would take 3 weeks for shipping.

I had searched and I found that there's no blog post of Google regarding availability outside US.So,it would be better to keep tab on Engadget,Verge and local tech blogs(blogs addressing news regarding your country).

Drsunil V

August 17, 2013 at 9:27 am

Thanks

Which available gadgets of reliable makes ( weblink ) can do the same work?

Drsunil V

August 17, 2013 at 9:28 am

Thanks

Pl tell , Which available gadgets of reliable makes ( weblink ) can do the same work?

My understanding is that Chromecast simply needs to be implemented into the respective apps, one of them being Chrome.

So you should be able to view any tab and it's content from Chrome on your television using Chromecast regardless of the video being YouTube, Dailymotion, Facebook or whatever.

I don't remember where I read it but basically what will happen is that the tab is going to be encoded on your computer and then streamed using Chromecast. The result being a loss in quality and depending on the source quality/size/bitrate you may experience stuttering.

In comparison if you use the YouTube app e.g. on your Android and click the Chromecast button the video will be directly streamed to the television with no loss in quality.

Drsunil V

August 9, 2013 at 5:27 am

Thanks

You mean buffering time for youtube would be faster than for tab-cast?

Susendeep D

August 10, 2013 at 5:46 am

Jan meant to say that if you use an Android device and want to watch it on your TV by tapping on chromecast button,it would directly mirror that video onto your TV using chromecast.

There's nothing like tab-cast.In starting paragraphs,he was saying about videos being loaded in a chrome browser tab.

Susendeep D

August 10, 2013 at 6:03 am

Jan meant to say that if you are watching video on android device and tap on chromecast icon,it'll mirror the video onto your TV.

There's nothing like tab-cast.He was saying about video being loaded in a chrome browser tab in his staring paragraphs.